On Thursday, NBC Universal announced that it would be relaunching NBC Sports Network, after the channel was originally closed down in 2021.<\/p>\n
The channel, which first made onto the nation’s airwaves in 1995, will return starting on Monday, Nov. 17, running 24\/7 from then on. NBCSN<\/a> will be available to YouTube<\/a> TV subscribers first, with Xfinity soon to follow. Further distributors of the channel will be announced down the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to a press release<\/a>, the channel will offer various live sporting events,\u00a0\u201cGiving pay-TV customers a way to enjoy much of NBCUniversal\u2019s extensive sports portfolio that also streams on Peacock.\u201d<\/p>\n However, it seems its catalogue of sports will not include NASCAR<\/a> as, under the new seven-year $7.7 billion broadcasting rights deal<\/a>, the sport is under the USA Sports banner, not that of NBC Sports, as per Jeff Gluck<\/a> (although the final three Playoff races of the 2026 season will be broadcast on NBC<\/a>, as was revealed on Wednesday).<\/p>\n In a statement, NBCUniversal\u2019s President of Platform Distribution and Partnerships, Matt Schnaars, said, \u201cNBCUniversal delivers the biggest moments in sports, and the new NBC Sports Network gives pay-tv customers a seamless way to enjoy the wide range of sports in our portfolio, adding an important pillar in our linear and streaming strategy.<\/p>\n Sign up to our NASCAR newsletter here.<\/a> <\/p>\n \u201cNBCSN is a win across the board \u2013 driving value for fans and distributors who prefer an aggregated experience, league and conference partners seeking broad reach, and advertisers targeting engaged sports audiences \u2013 while also creating a new monetization path for some of our most premium programming and supporting NBCU\u2019s commitment to serving viewers wherever they watch, whether on Peacock, pay-tv, or both.\u201d<\/p>\n While NASCAR will not feature on NBCSN, it is set to offer a plethora of exciting content, including Monday Night NBA games and the NBA Playoffs, WNBA regular and postseason games, MLB regular-season and some postseason games (yet to be confirmed), and Premier League games, along with various college sports, coverage of the Winter Olympics, golf, cycling, horse racing, and populr talk shows.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, NASCAR will focus on improving upon its 15 percent year-on-year slump in viewership in 2025, leading to a new low on record of 2.5 million on average. While concerning at first, this fell within NASCAR\u2019s projections for its bold new approach to broadcasting, splitting its coverage between four platforms, including Amazon Prime, where five races were streamed for the first time.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you look at putting together the right media, the right strategy for our sport – or any property – there has to be some sort of a balance of broadcast cable and a streaming pattern to it,\u201d NASCAR\u2019s Executive Vice President, and Chief Media and Revenue Officer, Brian Herbst, told the Sports Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we\u2019re able to achieve that, but there\u2019s also the economic realities of making sure that your financial position for the industry came in where we needed to come in. So we\u2019re able to accomplish that in Year 1 of the deal in 2025 and expect to grow from here.\u201d<\/p>\n NASCAR’s 2026 season will begin with The Clash, a non-points-scoring race at Bowman Gray Stadium, on February 1, which will be available to watch on FOX.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, NBC Universal announced that it would be relaunching NBC Sports Network, after the channel was originally…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[44385,49,48,2332,634,128322,82,9802],"class_list":{"0":"post-282099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-broadcasting-rights","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-motorsport-section","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-nbc-sports-network","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-streaming-platforms"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}